Mohammed Hassan

Helsinki, Finland.

Work Experience:

July 2008 - present

February 2007 - July 2008

Research, implement and develop various processes and tools needed for managing and improving the localization quality for Maemo software (Formerly OSSO).
Prepare the translation files for the translation vendor, quality check the actual translation deliveries, package and send them to integration.
Technical support was given to the vendor engineer if needed.

November 2005 - February 2007

Implementing websites and online/intranet portals using Drupal.
Customizing various Open Source software applications to fit the needs of the company clients.

December 2004 - September 2005

September 2003 - October 2004

Linux system administrator, Management and administration of the various company servers, Among them is amrkhaled.net, moezmasoud.com and other small sites.
Administration of apache, MySQL, postfix and courier MTA for virtual hosts.
Maintenance of the GNU/Linux intranet server "firewall, file and print shares".
Maintenance of the internal network.
Help desk and support for the php developers.

Linux server deployment for AHED: File, print and connection sharing, Firewall, Mail, Proxy & Centralized backup.
Branch sales information aggregation system.
Development of a network marketing management system.
Database design for a resource index and work group discussion forum for NGO-CRC.

Very good knowledge about GNU/Linux "Red Hat, Mandrake, GNU/Debian".
Basic knowledge about Microsoft Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows 9x, Windows 2000.

May 2005 - November 2005

Managing (through Core Management Team) the first Arabic Open Source community largely responsible for the Arabization of UNIX environments.

Katoob, A Unicode enabled text editor tailored to suite the needs of the Arabic user
January 2005: Participation in Asia source I as one of the localization track facilitators.
January 2006: Participation in Africa source II as one of the NGO migration track facilitators.

May 2004 - April 2006

EGLUG the Egyptian GNU/Linux user group aims to promote FLOSS and GNU/Linux in Egypt.

Participation in various events to spread GNU/Linux in Egypt.
Helped giving a GNU/Linux course for the Menia university TAs.
A presentation about the state of Arabic support and the free desktop as part of the MENGOS conference.
Gave a session on effective bug reporting for the EGLUG members.
Helped MENGOS installing a GNU/Linux lab.
Helped setting up the GNU/Linux lab at the culture wheel for the use in various activities including EGLUG ones.
Participating in a GNU/Linux crash course for a new NGO.
Co-organizer and volunteer for the 2nd install fest in the Sawy cultural center, The 10th of September, 2005.

Linux-Egypt was the first Linux community in Egypt.

Participation in various events to spread GNU/Linux in Egypt.
The first Linux-Egypt Install fest "Al sawy culture wheel", Saturday, 1st of May, 2004.

Qobra, a Qt/QtWebKit based browser (Under development)
Katoob, A Unicode enabled text editor tailored to suite the needs of the Arabic user (Orphaned)
Baghdad, An Arabic spell checker based on Tim Buckwalter's Arabic morphological analyzer.
Some contributions to phaeronix a live CD by one of the EGLUG members.
Development of a standard X-Window system tray component for the PekWM desktop environment (peksystray).
Contributions for some Open source projects: X chat, Gtksourceview, GnomeICU, lineakd, hpanel.
Small code fragments and scripts in my CVS.

January 28th - February 4th 2005: Participation in Asia source I as one of the localization track facilitators.
March 14th 2005: A presentation about the state of Arabic support and the free desktop as part of the MENGOS conference.
July 26th and 27th 2005: Gave two presentations during the 2nd OSS conference in Jordan organized by INT@J: OS Developer's Perspective: An Open Source Toolkit and The Status of Localization/Arabization of Linux and Open Source Software
January 8th 2006 - Jan 15th 2006: Participation in Africa source II as one of the NGO migration track facilitators.
July 12th 2006 - July 16th 2006: Trainee, North African Regional Wireless Training Workshop, Morocco organized by APC

Nationality: Egyptian.
Age: 28
Date Of Birth: 29/3/1981
Place Of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
Marital state: Single.
Education: Faculty of pharmacy, Cairo university.
Interests: I usually spend my free time reading, Trying to learn new technologies and increasing my knowledge about GNU/Linux, Maintain my website www.foolab.org, and trying to spread GNU/Linux by joining various EGLUG activities, Maintain my own software projects and/or trying to fix bugs in other software applications, specially related to Arabic as well as participating in volunteer work.